I have to reveal something shocking about Girl Slice, the woman I am about to share the rest of my life with: She's not a big pizza-eater.

In fact, she pulled a bit of a bait-and-switch on me when we first met.

Before we started dating, she told me some story about how she loved the pizza at Joe & Joe in Kensington so much that she ate a whole pie of it one day and then a whole Patsy's pizza the next day. I was like, Whoa. She'll be able to keep up with me.

And then, when we started dating, things done changed.

I'd suggest pizza for dinner, and she'd rebut with suggestions for Indian, Thai, or Chinese.

"What happened to the girl who ate 14 slices in two days?" I'd ask.

"I just don't crave it," she'd say.

In fact, she keeps threatening to write a column for Slice called "Unpopular Opinions" in which she would detail her love for mini-chain Patsy's ("They're better than the original one in East Harlem"), rail against San Marzano tomato sauces ("They're not seasoned enough"), and talk about what fools people are for waiting forever for Di Fara ("it's too smoky and hot in there and the pizza's just OK").

"And I'm dating you, why?" I'd say.

I kept thinking that maybe I'd call off our engagement, but then she IMed about the brussels sprout and pancetta pie at Motorino.

See, I had dragged her along a couple weeks ago to have dinner at the East Village Motorino with Rich, who you might remember as one of the folks I met in line at Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix. I had expected her to poo-poo yet another pizzeria I loved. But then ...

girlslice: I had the most amazing dreamgirlslice: It was at Motorino!!NYCSlice: HAHAHANYCSlice: what happened?girlslice: I went by myselfgirlslice: and I waited in lineNYCSlice: Did you eat the brussels spout pizza?girlslice: and then I had a plain margherita pizzagirlslice: and I finished it allgirlslice: and I said, "Can I stay and order another one?"girlslice: and the waitress said, "Well, there's a long line, so generally we encourage people to order all their pizzas at once."girlslice: And I explained that I wanted the brussels sprouts onegirlslice: and she said she would allow that girlslice: because it was a good onegirlslice: or she suggested onegirlslice: that she used all these fancy Italian names forgirlslice: and that turned out to be honey and herbsNYCSlice: hahaahNYCSlice: that's cuteNYCSlice: did anything else happen?girlslice: no, but I was actually able to eat my pizzagirlslice: which is rare in dreamsgirlslice: and apparently I was able to make my watiress speak italian!NYCSlice: hehNYCSlice: now i will blog this!girlslice: you can if you wantgirlslice: i don't think yougirlslice: have really conveyed on Slice how great that pie really isgirlslice: you mentioned it in your top 8 pizzas of 2009 postgirlslice: but if i hadn't eaten that pizza, i don't think i'd be convinced that it really was so good

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Adam Kuban is the proprietor of the pop-up Margot's Pizza, which serves bar-style pizza. But you may also know him as the founder of Slice (RIP, 2003–2014) where he has written thousands of blog posts about pizza. He also created A Hamburger Today and served as Serious Eats's founding editor (2006–2010) after having sold those sites to SE.

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